Fear makes you stronger: Responding to feared animal targets in visual search |
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Authors: | Anders Flykt Sofie Lindeberg Nazanin Derakshan |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Social Work and Psychology, Faculty of Health and Occupational studies, University of G?vle, 801 76, G?vle, Sweden 2. The Affective and Cognitive Control Lab, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK
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Abstract: | To investigate whether fear affects the strength with which responses are made, 12 animal-fearful individuals (five snake fearful and seven spider fearful) were instructed to decide as quickly as possible whether an animal target from a deviant category was present in a 3 × 4 item (animal) search array. The animal categories were snakes, spiders, and cats. Response force was measured, in newtons. The results showed that the strength of the response was greater when the feared animal served as the target than when it served as the distractors. This finding was corroborated by evoked heart rate changes to the stimuli. Our findings strengthen the argument that focused attention on a single, feared animal can lead to increases in manual force. |
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